Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mechanical pipe-end expander and a method of manufacturing seamless steel pipe
- Patent Title (中): 机械管端膨胀机及无缝钢管制造方法
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Application No.: US12230892Application Date: 2008-09-08
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Publication No.: US07765850B2Publication Date: 2010-08-03
- Inventor: Tsutomu Arita , Masayoshi Akiyama , Kouichi Kuroda , Tatsuya Okui
- Applicant: Tsutomu Arita , Masayoshi Akiyama , Kouichi Kuroda , Tatsuya Okui
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Clark & Brody
- Priority: JP2006-064668 20060309
- Main IPC: B21D41/02
- IPC: B21D41/02 ; B21D39/20 ; B21D39/08

Abstract:
The present invention provides a mechanical pipe-end expander comprising a cone and a die having tapered wedge bodies whose outer radius is larger towards a flangeless end direction from a flange end, wherein a pipe-end zone is expanded by a wedge effect of the die, which results from a procedure that the cone and the die are inserted together into the pipe-end zone to be expanded, and that then only the cone is axially drawn outwards leaving the die within the pipe-end zone. A seamless steel pipe with an expanded pipe-end zone is manufactured by applying a mechanical pipe-end expander comprising a die having tapered wedge bodies whose outer radius is larger towards a flangeless end direction from a flange end. The resulting seamless steel pipe has satisfactory pipe-end dimensional accuracy, and exhibits characteristics with excellent field welding workability.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090038366A1 Mechanical pipe-end expander and a method of manufacturing seamless steel pipe Public/Granted day:2009-02-12
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